Helen currently studies at the Royal Northern College of Music with Sandra Dugdale. She is a member of the RNCM Chamber Choir and in her first undergraduate year was awarded the Elsie Thurston Prize and the Kath Topping Award. In 2014 Helen was a finalist in the John Kerr Award held at Finchcocks Musical Museum. In 2013 Helen performed as Imago Girl 1 in Glyndebourne’s modern opera Imago by Orlando Gough, directed by Susannah Waters. She has also performed as Masha in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades with OperaCoast and in Dido and Aeneas with The Kantanti Ensemble. Recently Helen has performed in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, as Cobweb in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as Joan in Kurt Weil’s Street Scene at RNCM. In 2016 Helen will perform with the RNCM Baroque Soloists and in Eugene & Onegin and Macbeth at the Dorset Opera Festival. On the concert platform she has performed at venues such as St Martin in the Fields, Coventry Cathedral, Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Albert Hall, Leeds Town Hall and the Bridgewater Hall. Helen has enjoyed performing in a variety of choral works as a soloist including, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb (Broadcast on Radio 3 with NYCGB), Schubert’s Mass in Ab, Rutter’s Requiem, and Handel’s Dixit Dominus. Prior to her undergraduate studies Helen was a member of Glyndebourne Youth Opera. Here Helen participated in a masterclass with Mary King and performed in many of their operas including, Lovers Walk by Glyndebourne’s composer in residence Luke Styles. Here Helen performed the role of Janet. In 2012 Helen was also a finalist of the BBC Young Choristers of the Year broadcast on Radio 2.